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Guest Post: How Evernote Makes My Life Betterhttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/07/20/guest-post-evernote-makes-life-better/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/07/20/guest-post-evernote-makes-life-better/#commentsWed, 20 Jul 2016 20:30:25 +0000https://blog.evernote.com/?p=48768Jeremy Yancey is communications and marketing professional, blogger, and author who works with companies to optimize their brand online using digital, content and social media marketing. He is also an Evernote Community Leader based out of Sydney, Australia.

I’ve been using Evernote for around five years, and it’s changed my life. I’m not being melodramatic, or even exaggerating in the slightest sense. I’ll prove it to you.

I used to struggle with two things that cost me considerable time, and caused major frustration:

Taking notes, and having them easily accessible.

Maintaining and retrieving organized files.

I was fed up with trawling through paper notebooks, which were typically abandoned halfway through because of the scribbled chaos and overwhelming mess. My filing cabinet was more of a dumping ground than a systematic storage unit.

Surely there had to be a better way.

I picked up a copy of The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss (still a favorite book of mine). From this book, I first learned about Evernote – an app that would soon not only solve my problems but would also become a pivotal productivity tool that I rely on daily.

Evernote…not only solved my problems but also became a pivotal productivity tool that I rely on daily.

I’m not writing a sales pitch. This is a genuine case study. Thanks to Evernote, I always have records and information I need, whenever I need it. I could be at the accountant’s office doing my taxes, and need to pull up a receipt, and it’s no problem because I stored it in Evernote. My boss might be trying to recall what was said at a recent meeting. A quick check of the meeting minutes in my Evernote answers his question. But Evernote isn’t just for work notes or housing vital records. Evernote is at the center of everything I need to remember. These could be scans of old printed photos, random, brilliant ideas I had while walking the dog, a shopping checklist (without one, I always forget something). When I triage my email inbox, I clip important messages straight into Evernote for later reference. If I’ve found a great article online that I want to keep handy, I clip a ‘simplified’ version of it, which removes all the junk (like ads) from the page and gives me a clean copy that’s easy to read. When out at dinner with friends, I can snap a picture of a wine label I like and jot down a quick note detailing when and where I had it.

I’ve now cut out about 90 percent of the paper in my life. I rarely keep physical copies anymore, unless paper is required. The rest sits safely in Evernote, ready for when I need it. The only notebook I keep is my Evernote Moleskine, which I use to take handwritten notes. I scan them into Evernote later. The Evernote Moleskine Notebook is optimized for use with Evernote app, which can turn handwriting into searchable text (my father-in-law was amazed by this, and is now using the Moleskine with Evernote too).

I’ve now cut out about 90 percent of the paper in my life.

There are no rules for how you set up your Evernote system. It is flexible and customizable, so it’s easy to set up exactly the way you want. With Evernote, you don’t have to deal with putting things in folders. Instead, there are notebooks and tags, which, for me, at least, works much better with the way I think and organize Evernote’s powerful search feature makes it straightforward and fast to dig up what you’re looking for, from almost any device.

Evernote made my life better because it helps keep me organized and more productive. I’ve cut out the chaos and freed up time to focus on what matters. It’s an app I can’t live without.

Want to join Jeremy and the rest of the Evernote Community Leaders? Learn more.

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/07/20/guest-post-evernote-makes-life-better/feed/12Evernote Names Anirban Kundu as CTOhttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/07/11/evernote-names-anirban-kundu-cto/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/07/11/evernote-names-anirban-kundu-cto/#commentsMon, 11 Jul 2016 19:36:34 +0000https://blog.evernote.com/?p=48687Distinguished engineer to lead Evernote’s technology architecture in continued move to scale the business for growth

REDWOOD CITY, CA — Starting today, Anirban Kundu is the new Chief Technology Officer at Evernote. He joins CEO Chris O’Neill’s leadership team to help scale Evernote for continued growth beyond the current 200 million users and more than 5 billion notes and 5 billion attachments those users entrust to Evernote. Kundu is responsible for designing the back-end technology required to help Evernote continue to scale while allowing customers to intelligently consume their data, an opportunity that attracted him to the role.

“The best thing about Evernote is we already have a large number of users and a tremendous amount of data,” said Kundu. “The challenge is evolving the current infrastructure so that we’re better prepared to reliably scale for the growth of both our customers’ data and our service. Laying those foundations for that core service will not only allow us to grow but will also allow us to focus on building applications that enable our users to retrieve and consume their data in the right context, which is very exciting.”

Kundu brings many years of experience building and leading teams solving similar challenges. At Yahoo! he was responsible for designing and implementing the back-end system that allowed Yahoo! Mail to grow to handle more than 25 billion SMTP connections per day while delivering more than 4.5 billion messages a day. He was also responsible for implementing various core components of the anti-spam infrastructure, including its velocity and traffic-shaping systems while being one of the earliest to incorporate machine learning in the defense against spam.

At GoDaddy, he was responsible for creating the personalization infrastructure that assisted in making cross-sell and up-sell recommendations using machine learning, while setting up the data services infrastructure and leading the Data Sciences teams. As the United States head of engineering at Shazam, he led the development and implementation of both the video recognition system as well as the core audio recognition system in addition to building out the engineering team.

“Anirban brings the perfect experience developing and operating backend architecture systems and building engineering teams to Evernote,” said Chris O’Neill, Evernote CEO. “He’s a great fit for our leadership team and his vision for scaling our infrastructure will allow us to create a stronger Evernote that helps unlock the potential of our 200 million users’ ideas by providing just the right information at just the right time.”

The addition of Kundu completes the new leadership built by O’Neill and puts Evernote in a position to quickly scale and grow the business. “At Evernote, our mission is to help our users unlock the potential of their ideas and with Anirban, we have the team in place to deliver on that mission,” said O’Neill.

“The thing I love about Evernote is how differently people use it,” Kundu added. “With 200 million users and 10 billion entities of data, we can use machine learning to make recommendations on what’s most relevant and meaningful to you, so if you’re going on a trip we can surface everything you need, everything you want to see, based on your choices as a user. It’s a very big job and a lot of work, and I couldn’t be more excited to start working on it.”

Through their travels, Josh said, one thing became crystal clear: though cultures, languages, and approaches to work differ, everyone around the world has the desire to create and nurture ideas. “No matter where we went,” Josh recalled, “Ideas are the universal language. They’re the most cross-cultural asset of all. It doesn’t matter whether they’re nature enthusiasts in Oslo, young entrepreneurs in London, or professional organizers in Atlanta. Everyone recognizes when something is useful.”

Josh and Pierre-Emmanuel tell their story:

London Calling

The impressive Huckletree co-working space, a post-industrial re-imagining of a Victorian factory

Global educational company General Assembly hosted us at Huckletree, a co-working space in Shoreditch, East London. At Huckletree, they’ve blasted away the dark Victorian factory interior that was formerly housed here and replaced it with inspiring modernity, full of light and air. Our guest speaker wasMichael Tobin, OBE, author of Forget Strategy. Get Results. Tobin advised our guests that simplicity was the key to higher productivity.

London Tip:
You can spend lots of time researching productivity best practices, setting up complex workflows, and creating detailed strategies for staying productive, but you may be inadvertently wasting time and making things harder on yourself.

Agreement and debate in Paris

In Paris, Josh (in black) fielded questions in English from his French-speaking audience thanks to interpretation and moderation help from EMEA Evernote Marketing Manager Pierre-Emmanuel Boiton.

Next stop: Paris. Co-working spaceLe Tank welcomed us and our guests, entrepreneurs Manuel Diaz and Maxime Garrigues, for a discussion on how to stay productive while on the go. Diaz advised the audience that company growth requires updating workflows and making other systemic changes.

Paris Tip:
Anticipate that structural changes in the business will also require changes to Evernote workflows, and build your system to be flexible enough to easily adapt to the needs of a mobile workforce.

Berlin: A changing city, a changing work style

Berlin’s vibrant startup culture brings work and play outdoors.

The startup culture in ultra-modern Berlin has a multicultural air. Would-be entrepreneurs and business owners here are brilliant, energetic, and connected with colleagues all over the world. We met them at co-working spaceFactory.

The questions in Berlin centered on distributed teams. “How can teams stay organized and productive when some members are remote? How can we work together, how can we keep track of our tasks?”When teammates work across time zones, as the Berlin crowd often does, it’s vital to have real-time information—especially when face-to-face communication isn’t possible.

Berlin tip:
Collect ideas in a shared notebook—that way, team members all over the world can work together in real time.

Oslo: Time is a precious commodity to use wisely

Nordic culture and food greeted us in Oslo. Efficiency, nature, and family time dominated the conversation.

Nordic culture values family and nature over professional time. To stay competitive, Norwegian workers are interested in organization and efficiency. “You aren’t static,” said our guest Morten P. Røvik, the only certifiedGetting Things Done Master Trainer in the Nordics. “Your personal and professional lives evolve over time.”

Oslo tip:
Ensure that the things you do to stay productive can adapt to changes in your personal life and working world.

Zurich: You’re using Evernote the right way

Every event included a mixer, networking opportunities, and a post-session Q&A, like this one in Zurich.

Individuality was the trend in Zurich, where users were treated to a “peek behind the Evernote curtain” panel discussion to learn how we develop and market our products. Everybody we met wanted to know if they were using Evernote “correctly.” The answer is yes—everyone agreed that there is no “right” or “wrong” way to use Evernote. On this topic, Switzerland remains neutral.

Zurich tip:
Use Evernote however you want. Whatever works for you is great, but consider looking at more features in Evernote to get even more out of it.

Atlanta: Inspiring stories and power users

The National Association of Professional Organizers was eager to meet the Evernote team.

For the last stop on our tour, we hosted a gathering at the National Association of Professional Organizers conference in Atlanta. The organizers in Atlanta have a lot of Evernote love, and they weren’t shy about asking for integrations and improvements they’d like to see. We were excited to share the latest updates from Evernote, like our integration with Google Drive and recent updates to Evernote for Android and Windows.

Atlanta tip:
Look for continual additions and improvements to Evernote to make it even more indispensible for helping you manage how you work and live.

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/06/02/on-tour-with-evernote-community-where-ideas-are-the-universal-language/feed/2Guts, Glory, and Evernote: Extreme Athlete Writes the Book on the Marathon des Sableshttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/05/18/guts-glory-and-evernote-extreme-athlete-writes-the-book-on-the-marathon-des-sables/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/05/18/guts-glory-and-evernote-extreme-athlete-writes-the-book-on-the-marathon-des-sables/#commentsWed, 18 May 2016 16:47:34 +0000https://blog.evernote.com/?p=48218In the blistering heat and never-ending sand dunes of the Sahara Desert, the bravest, fittest souls in the world look across the vast, terrifying expanse and see only challenge and opportunity. For them, the six-day, 156-mile (251 km) annual race across the unforgiving Moroccan desert known as the Marathon des Sables (MdS) is the ultimate test of stamina and endurance, and thousands sign up every year—but only a few complete it.

You might not expect to count a British management consultant among that number, but Nisha Harish is someone who made it. Like all MdS participants, she carried with her everything she needed for survival in temperatures that can reach 134 degrees F (56.6 degrees C) in the daytime and drop to 35 degrees F (1.6 degrees C) at night—food, water, safety supplies, a sleeping bag, and medical equipment. Nisha also carried an iPhone and the Evernote app, determined to continue writing her book about her experiences while running the race.

Competitors trek across the Sahara in ‘the toughest footrace on earth”

Grueling training for the ‘toughest footrace on earth’

Nisha was making her second attempt at the race. The first time, logistical errors cost her nine toenails. Ultimately, this meant that she was unable to complete the race. Undeterred, she came back the following year (2015), this time armed with the wisdom of experience and a backpack that was half the weight of her original. She also trained on the Dune du Pilat in Bordeaux, France, the highest sand dune in Europe. On weekends, she hiked and trained outside of London on unforgiving, hilly terrain.

Nisha said, “At the peak of my training I was running 100 miles (160 km) a week, carrying 22 pounds (10 kg) of weight on my back. All the while I was structuring my book in Evernote. I crafted the book into 12 chapters and made a notebook for each chapter. Within each notebook, I captured notes and pictures that I’d use in that chapter.”

It would be too simplistic to say that Evernote allows people to make notes because it has allowed me to achieve a major life ambition. —Nisha Harish

Life-or-death consequences for small decisions

The race itself is even more grueling than it sounds. Runners have to be completely prepared to run the equivalent of a full marathon a day for six days in harsh desert conditions. Nisha saw fellow competitors go down with broken bones, ruptured intestines, foot infections, and even temporary blindness. Each participant must make life-changing decisions about how much weight to carry, balancing their needs against the merciless demands of the route. “The more a runner carries, the slower he or she will be,” Nisha advised. “The slower the runner, the higher the risk of missing the time limits stipulated at each checkpoint, and the longer the runner will have to spend on their feet. The more time spent on their feet, the more likely it will be to sustain an injury. All runners have to weigh the consequences versus the benefits of what we carry.”

Nisha learned this lesson the hard way in 2014, the first time she attempted the MdS. “I carried 33 pounds (15 kg) of equipment and supplies in my rucksack because I over-estimated how much I would need. The extra weight made it incredibly painful to race a full marathon every day. In 2015, I reduced this to 17.5 pounds (8 kg) which meant that I was much quicker and sustained far fewer injuries due to less pressure on my joints and feet.”

Author, athlete, and Evernote user Nisha Harish

Crafting a book in Evernote

Nisha captured tips like these at night, tapping out notes in Evernote on her iPhone while in her tent. “I could capture my thoughts, feelings, and experiences in Evernote, right when they were happening, so they’d be more real than writing them later from memory. Psychologically, it felt more like texting to do it that way, more than writing a whole book,” she explained. “I knew I wanted to write the sort of book I needed to read before I ran the race for the first time. It needed to be part inspirational, and part guide; I wanted to write something to help others run the race successfully. But I didn’t like the idea of writing at my laptop in solitary confinement. I wanted to write a book, but it needed to fit into my lifestyle. Evernote gave me that flexibility.”

Nisha’s book, Big Steps, Long Strides, combines her story with practical advice, ranging from training strategies to dealing with injuries. The book includes a foreword written by the renowned explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, who at 71 years old in 2015, became the oldest Brit to complete the race.

Today, back at home in London, Nisha has embarked on an additional strand to her career as a keynote speaker. “When I tell people about Evernote, and I illustrate the way I used it, they’re amazed and engaged by the story—but also by the app. It would be too simplistic to say that Evernote allows people to make notes because it has allowed me to achieve a major life ambition.”

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2016/05/18/guts-glory-and-evernote-extreme-athlete-writes-the-book-on-the-marathon-des-sables/feed/3Astronaut Ron Garan’s space-inspired lessons on collaborationhttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/07/13/astronaut-ron-garans-space-inspired-lessons-on-collaboration/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/07/13/astronaut-ron-garans-space-inspired-lessons-on-collaboration/#respondMon, 13 Jul 2015 18:10:12 +0000https://blog.evernote.com/?p=45923It would be a challenge to find someone who has a more beautiful office than Ron Garan.

As a NASA astronaut, Ron has traveled more than seventy-one million miles, made over two thousand orbits around the earth, and has logged 27 hours in four spacewalks outside the International Space Station. Now retired, Ron’s final assignment with NASA was working on the Open Innovation Initiative that promotes collaboration with external teams to solve space-related technology challenges.

Ron combined the unique vantage point that only someone who’s circled the earth from space could have with lessons learned both from working alongside other nations to build the International Space Station, to write “The Orbital Perspective.” In his recently published book, Ron examines how humanity can come together to solve the world’s most challenging problems.

We spoke with Ron about what working in space is like, how it formed his macro perspective on collaboration, and what lessons on working together we can all learn from his book.

Can you give us some background on your book project, “The Orbital Perspective?”

“The Orbital Perspective” really is a book about where we can go in the future if we choose to do so.

It is about taking a big picture perspective, applying the lessons learned about collaboration from the building of the International Space Station (ISS), and putting it all in the context of our global society and rapidly developing technologies.

I launched into space in 2011 with a belief that we already have the resources, technology, solutions and pieces of the puzzle to solve many, if not all of the problems on our planet. I spent six months in space wondering if that were true.

From space, one of the perspectives you get is just how interconnected we all are. We are all in this together. We are all riding through the universe on the space shuttle we call earth. That is what I call the orbital perspective.

Can you share how your work on the ISS and with the Open Innovation Initiative has shaped the way you think about collaboration specifically?

Any large bureaucracy is stovepiped to the point where there are major inefficiencies.

Everybody has their own little fiefdoms that set up boundaries and barriers to collaboration which basically decreases efficiency. People are reluctant to stand outside of what they’re comfortable with. But times are changing.

It’s not just that manufacturing has to cooperate internally with marketing, but they need to collaborate with everybody in the value chain including their customers and competitors—anyone who can bring value to the equation. That’s not the way most businesses think, but the successful businesses of the future will think that way. Tools like Evernote help bridge that gap.

When did this all come together for you?

There wasn’t a single moment in Space when all of a sudden these angels started singing and I had this epiphany. But there were several experiences when taken over the context of many months in space, I think really did lead to this shift.

Once, I was on a space walk on the end of a robotic arm, 100 feet above the Space Station looking down at this amazing accomplishment of humanity against the backdrop of this indescribably beautiful planet. I was hit with the enormity of this thing and I thought wow, “If we could do that in space with 15 nations, some of which were not always the best of friends, imagine what we can do together on the surface.”

How does all of this fit into a global, terrestrial view on working with one another?

If you look at things from the orbital perspective, the internet and all of our connected devices are the nerve center of spaceship earth. It can align discrete points of creativity and innovation in new ways. It’s never been easier to incorporate the ideas of people around the world regardless of their location or political ideology. There are efforts to connect the five billion people that are not presently part of the global equation to the internet. Once we do that, we are going to find solutions to the problems we face that we’ve never dreamed of, coming from places we have never heard of. Collaboration is not walking in the door with this idea that we have all the answers.

How should individuals working on teams here on earth be thinking about collaboration in their own teams?

I think the biggest thing is everybody talks about self-help books and building your legacy. Rather than seeking a legacy, I would seek impact. if you seek impact, it’s not encumbered by getting credit for everything.

Building a legacy attracts the baggage that makes sure the person seeking the credit gets the recognition for what they’ve done. That is a serious barrier to collaboration.

True cooperation and collaboration means people are working together towards a common goal. The common goal is more important than individual success. In corporate terms, is marketing meeting its goals at the expense of manufacturing or vice versa? In space terms, are the mission control guys achieving their goals at the expense of the crew or scientists?

Is there one key takeaway you’d like everyone reading to consider?

Unity node is the central connector of the Space Station—it’s a module on the Space Station. All the lines of communication and life-support flow through Unity.

It’s not a central database, it’s a pass-through. What we need on our planet is a similar unity mode for Spaceship Earth. We need a conduit for life-saving data so resources can flow and connect these discrete efforts as a unified action.

Evernote is a step in that direction, of course.

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2015/07/13/astronaut-ron-garans-space-inspired-lessons-on-collaboration/feed/0How American Figure Skater David Pelletier Uses Evernote and Skitch [VIDEO]https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/12/24/how-figure-skater-david-pelletier-uses-evernote-and-skitch/
Tue, 24 Dec 2013 20:54:19 +0000http://blog.evernote.com/?p=38080David Pelletier is an American figure skater and a nationally ranked pairs skater since 1993. With skating partner Andrea Varraux, the two were crowned champions representing Team USA Figure Skating at the 2003 Junior Grand Prix in Zagreb, Croatia, qualifying them to compete with the top eight pairs teams in the world at the Junior Grand Prix Final in Malmö, Sweden (7th place).

Pelletier stays involved with figure skating through charity shows and volunteering on various athlete and ethics committees. He also remains committed to the sport by training and mentoring young athletes in Switzerland – which he does with the help of Evernote and Skitch. Watch the video below to see how:

Evernote for Working Together

Since David is only in Dubendorf once a month or so, he uses Evernote to share information with all of the other trainers that also work with the skaters. With Shared Notebooks, they can manage schedules, share notes about sessions with each other, and use Evernote as a central repository for the information about all of their athlete clients.

Skitch for Coaching Tips

Figure skating is a precision sport that requires perfect execution of each maneuver to score the most points. To help his athletes see exactly what they need to adjust, David uses Skitch on his iPhone to photograph all their moves, then point out areas that need correction. He shares these photos directly with the athletes, so they can visually understand their improvement over time and what moves they still need to work on.

How do Evernote and Skitch help you work together with coworkers, family and friends? Share some of the ways you’re using it in the comments below!

]]>Search Better with Evernote Premium: Document Searchhttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/03/25/search-better-with-evernote-premium-document-search/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/03/25/search-better-with-evernote-premium-document-search/#commentsMon, 25 Mar 2013 14:00:49 +0000http://blog.evernote.com/?p=30822Search is a centerpiece of the Evernote experience. No matter how you use notebooks and tags, search is often the key to helping you discover the items you’re looking for. Over the years, we’ve continually made search better for all of our users. From making it faster to adding type-ahead suggestions to improving our search for text in images, we want to make sure everyone can find what they need.

Search Better with Evernote Premium

Today, we’re supercharging search for Evernote Premium and Evernote Business users with the addition of Document Search. Now any attached document, presentation and spreadsheet created using Microsoft Office and iWork will show up in your search results across almost every version of Evernote that you use.

Best part: If you’re a Premium or Business user, you don’t need to do anything. The feature is live and your existing documents have all been indexed. It’s important to keep in mind that when you add new documents, you’ll need to give us a few minutes to sync and index them before the results will appear.

This new feature comes in addition to the existing priority image recognition, and Premium PDF Search, which makes any scanned documents attached to notes searchable, for Premium users.

If you attach documents to your notes, scan PDFs and take photos containing text, you may want to consider upgrading to Evernote Premium. It’ll make finding your notes faster and easier than ever.

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/03/25/search-better-with-evernote-premium-document-search/feed/8Evernote for iOS Update: New View, Better PDF Support, Evernote Business Improvements, and Morehttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/02/28/evernote-for-ios-update-new-view-better-pdf-support-evernote-business-improvements-and-more/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/02/28/evernote-for-ios-update-new-view-better-pdf-support-evernote-business-improvements-and-more/#commentsThu, 28 Feb 2013 18:47:15 +0000http://blog.evernote.com/?p=29930Editor’s Note: As of April 29, 2015, the Evernote features and pricing described in this blog post have changed. Please reference our comparison page for a current list of features and pricing levels.

Today’s Evernote for iOS (5.2) update is full of exciting and useful features, including a new way to view your notes, a completely overhauled PDF experience, more formatting options, exciting Evernote Business enhancements, and access to the Evernote Trunk. Let’s take a closer look at this great update.

Snippets on iPad

If there’s one thing we’ve learned over the years, it’s that our users love having options when viewing their notes. That’s why we’ve added Snippets to our iPad version. It’s a new note list mode that makes it easy to quickly scan your notes and jump to any month with a handy date scrubber along the right edge. To switch to Snippets, pull down from the top of the note list and tap on the icon.

When you’re viewing Snippets and you tap on a note, the note slides in from the right over part of the Snippets list. This design lets you view and edit the note, while also letting you scroll through the note list.

By default, Snippets contain the title, date, tags, an image, and some text from the note’s body. If you prefer seeing less information, simply tap on the gear icon in the lower right corner of the screen and choose what you want to see.

Improved PDFs

For this update, we’ve embedded a new PDF viewer that makes reading PDFs a much better experience.

Multi-page: Jump to any page in your PDF by tapping on the page images along the bottom of the PDF or the grid icon in the top left corner.

Search: Tap the magnifying glass to search within the PDF. Premium subscribers will also be able to search inside scanned PDFs.

Landscape view: Turn your iPhone or iPad on its side to get a two-page view.

Rotation lock: Tap the rotate icon in the top right corner to lock the PDF in place so it doesn’t move when you turn your device.

New Formatting Options

In past updates, we’ve given you the tools you need to add all sorts of text styling and formatting to your notes. In today’s update, we have two new options to strip unwanted formatting away. To access the options tap on the “A” above the keyboard on iPhone or the “no-formatting” icon above the keyboard on iPad when editing a note.

Simplify Formatting is great for cleaning up any formatting issues that you may encounter in a note. This is particularly useful for cleaning up web clips.

New Evernote Business Features

Offline Notebook Support
Evernote Business users can now download any or all of their Business Notebooks to their device, allowing the notes to load instantly even without a network connection. Select the Business Notebooks you wish to take offline by going to the Business Premium view on the home screen, then tap “Offline Notebooks.”

View the Business Library on iPad
The Business Premium view also lets iPad users view your company’s Business Library. From there, you can see all of the Business Notebooks published by your colleagues and choose the ones that you’d like to sync to your account. Once you join and sync a Business Notebook to your Evernote account, it will appear in your notebook list.

The Evernote App Center on iPad

There are thousands of amazing developers across the globe building integrations that extend the power of Evernote. Now, you can explore everything that our community has to offer right from the app. Tap on your user name in the top-left corner of the home screen and select the App Center. When you see an iOS app that you like, you can install it right from the App Center, no need to go searching in iTunes.

And More…

In addition to these great features, we’ve also improved our handling of large notes, fixed tons of bugs, and we now let you open PDFs and images in other apps. We hope you like the latest version of Evernote of iOS. Let us know what you think.

Erin Souder loves to create and is the voice behind the daily DIY and home style blog, House of Earnest. Erin uses Evernote for all aspects of her blog; everything from capturing furniture inspiration to sharing unique DIY ideas. We’re excited to welcome her as our newest Evernote Design Ambassador. She’s written before about all the ways Evernote helps her manage her workflow and ideas for House of Earnest here, and today she’s sharing a few more.

Evernote for Organizing Creativity

My blog, House of Earnest, is where I share all things home-related that inspire me. I’ve been using Evernote for almost four years; I started using it to catalog pictures that I took and wanted to add some notes to. As my blog following grew, I got really busy and it’s helped manage all of my creative inspiration.

Above is a screenshot of my ‘homepage’ which shows my last several saved notes. It’s laid out kind of like an email inbox, but each note shows a snippet of a photo, which is so helpful for finding something visual. If I’m looking for “gold” things in a product round up, I can scan the thumbnails and easily pick out gold-hued items from all of the notes I’ve saved.

Remembering My Best Ideas
In addition to visually scanning notes, however, you can add information such as tags to make your notes (in my case they’re mostly photos) even easier to sort through. One photo might get ten different tags, but it helps me to recover the idea later on. I use Evernote and the Web Clipper to capture inspiration wherever it strikes me, then later I can search by keyword to find exactly what I’m looking for.

Another amazing detail? The Web Clipper saves all of the URLs of clipped images and webpages for me. I love to give recommendations about unique pieces and fun products on the blog, and one of the hardest things for me (in life and in blogging) is remembering where I saw something. Now it’s easy for me to recall some of the more obscure finds that I may feature.

Connect with Erin and learn more about all our Evernote Ambassadors by checking out our Community page!

]]>https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2013/01/25/announcing-our-newest-design-ambassador-erin-souder-of-house-of-earnest/feed/1The New Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touchhttps://blog.evernote.com/blog/2012/11/08/the-new-evernote-5-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/
https://blog.evernote.com/blog/2012/11/08/the-new-evernote-5-for-iphone-ipad-and-ipod-touch/#commentsThu, 08 Nov 2012 15:02:13 +0000http://blog.evernote.com/?p=24429Our apps never stop evolving. Every few weeks, we release an update that adds something new or improves an existing feature. It’s not often that we launch a complete redesign. In fact, it happens only once every few years. That’s what we’re doing today with our huge, new Evernote 5 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

Design Goals

Our goal with the redesign was simple: make all major functions accessible within two taps. Achieving this goal was easier said than done. Evernote is a powerful app that’s used for a huge variety of tasks. Our team of graphic and interface designers spent months developing an approach that fit the needs of our users. From quick note takers to hyper organizers, the new Evernote 5 has you covered.

The Home Screen

We started from scratch when thinking about the home screen. The objective was to let a person create a new note or browse to an existing one with equal speed. To make this possible, we divided the screen into two sections: Quick Notes and Views.

Quick Note Buttons

Along the top of the app, you’ll find the Quick Note buttons. These let you create a new text note, start a snapshot or digitize physical documents with Page Camera. We made the buttons large so that they’re easy to tap, and we eliminated several steps from the process, perfect when time is of the essence.

The Views

Below the Quick Note buttons you’ll find a list of Views. Each is designed to help you get to your notes in the way that works best for you. We never dictate how users should organize their information, which means that some people rely entirely tags, others on notebooks, and others don’t use either. With this new design, we’ve found an elegant way to cater to everyone’s needs. Tap or swipe the green bar of a View to expand it to full screen, do the same to return to the home screen.

All Notes Views
The default All Notes look is our newly designed cards layout. The cards beautifully highlight the content of the note, giving you a good amount of information before you tap. On iPhone, if you prefer a different layout, swipe down from the top of the list to expose the sorting and search options. You can choose the classic snippets layout, as well as a different sort order.

Beside the layout options, you’ll find the search bar. It’s always there at the top of the note list when you need it. As always, you can search your account by keywords and by text contained within photos and images.

Notebooks View
The redesigned notebook list is a huge improvement over previous versions of Evernote. First, it brings all of your notebooks and those shared with you by others into a single list. You can scroll the list to find notes relating to a school or work project managed by someone else just as quickly and easily as you would find your own content. If you want to only see your own notebooks, pull down from the top to show sorting options.

In addition to the unified list, this view also shows Notebook Stacks, displayed as a wrapped grouping of books. Notebook Stacks are now also available on iPad! Tap on a notebook stack to expand it, then tap on the individual notebook you’re looking for.

We also made it easier to add a new notebook. Just tap on the Edit button in the green bar, then tap on New Notebook.

Tag View
If you organize your notes with tags, then you’ll love the new Tag View. Your tags are displayed in a list sorted alphabetically or by note count. You can change the sort order by pulling down on the list to expose the sorting options. You can also search for tags by typing into the tag search bar.

Places View
Location is one of the most powerful ways to remember your experiences. Evernote 5 makes it easy to relive all those memories. If you have location enabled, then every note you create on your iPhone or iPad in Evernote, Evernote Food, and Evernote Hello include location info. Now, you can easily view all those notes on a map. Pinch and zoom to find the area that you’re interested in, then tap on the notes icon in the top right corner of the screen. When you tap the icon, the notes from the selected area will overlay on the screen, allowing you to see the memories associated with that place. To return to the map, simply tap on the pin icon.

Premium Feature View
Evernote is completely free, but for our more active users, we offer some great additional features as part of Evernote Premium. Now, Premium users can easily manage their Premium features from this View. These Premium features includes the ability to download notebooks for fast access any time, PIN lock and more. If you’re a Free user and would like to learn more about the Premium features, just tap on the View.

New on iPad: Recent Notes

The iPad’s larger screen allowed us to add a great element to the home screen: Recent Notes. This horizontally scrolling list shows you the last several notes that your viewed, edited and created on the iPad. Tapping on one jumps you to the note. Recent notes are great for taking notes in a meeting, then looking something else up, then quickly returning to the note you were editing.

Questions and Answers

We created several useful resources to help you get the most of the new Evernote.

A beautiful new learning experience when signing into the app. If you’re an existing user, I recommend signing out once you upgrade just to see it.

And More…

Not only did we add a ton of great features and redesigns, we also made the app faster, more responsive and more reliable. On top of all that, the new Evernote 5 looks and works beautifully on the new iPad Mini. We hope you like the new look of the app. There’s lots more to come. All of you Evernote Mac users, stay tuned. The new Evernote 5 for Mac is coming very soon.

Meet the Designers

If you’re interested in learning more about the thinking that went into this and other Evernote apps and products, then join us in San Francisco on November 15th for our Evernote Talks: Design event. Space is very limited. RSVP here.